This paper uses national survey data to estimate up-to-date private rates of return to education in Burkina Faso … results indicate that rates of return rise by level of education, and the public sector does not compensate female primary … education. The findings suggest that current education polices which focus on increasing primary schooling supply be …

at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …

education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational … process is de- composed into two stages: achievement at school and post-school achievement. The same conceptual framework …

positively skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient of variation of about 0.3, comparable …

of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if …

. The determinants examined within a Tobit model framework include total household expenditure, education levels of parents … and other household characteristics. Such analysis of the household behavior of attempting to provide better education to … their children will highlight the determinants of the demand for education and the intergenerational transfers in Turkey. …

-ante identical individuals make unobservable private investments in education. We show that voting-based renegotiation can result in …